Innovative Educational Workshops and Residencies

For: Professional Theatre Practitioners, Directors, Youth Theatre Leaders and Practitioners, Amateur and Community Theatre/Drama Practitioners and Professional Theatre Companies.

One, two or three day or week long workshops, also residential courses and summer schools on:

Improvisation

Creating a Play

Character Development

Identifying Dramatic Objectives

The Actors Notebook, – a dialogue with self

Identifying the Dramatic Units in a Play

Phil works regularly providing workshops for Professional Actors, Writers, Youth Theatres, Theatre In Education Companies, Community Theatre Company’s, Young Peoples Theatre Companies, Schools, Youth Clubs, Theatre Schools, Universities, Amateur Theatres Company’s and Theatre Companies internationally. He is happy to create programmes of work for a company’s specific needs. He can provide workshops in the following areas………..

POLICY

developing a Mission Statement

setting Company objectives and values

enabling a SWOT analysis

setting up Company structures

working towards a 3 Year plan

leading company analysis and evaluation

creating a Company philosophy

creating time lines for action

CREATIVE

creating an ensemble

finding the ensemble voice

preparing for rehearsals (actors and directors)

text analysis

actioning

setting objectives

uniting (beats)

character analysis

hot-seating

improvisation

sub-texting

identifying buzz words

WRITING

exploring the dramatic ark of a drama

mentoring a writer

creating and developing an inciting incident

developing a text

creating characters

inventing back stories

finding the unique voice

exploring levels of disturbance

creating and identifying “suddenlys”

devising a play…..and the role of the writer

creating verbatim theatre

exploring theatrical/dramatic structure

YOUTH THEATRE

creating a manifesto

finding a shared voice

exploring citizenship

creating a positive and shared management structure

the objectives of Youth Theatre practice, artistic, and managerial

I am also happy to provide workshops on

Pantomime techniques

Drama in the school classroom and curriculum needs

Creating a Horrible History production

The Art of the One Act Play

Creating five minute plays

Summer Schools

Week long workshops

A Play in a Week

Please feel free to contact me at any time to talk through ideas and possibilities